US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Aug. 5 for "Method, system, and apparatus for a segmented polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) code" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,578, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method, system, and apparatus for a segmented polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) code" was invented by Louis-Philippe Hamelin (Montreal), Harsh Aurora (Montreal) and Yiqun Ge (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A codeword is generated based on a segmentation transform and a Polarization-Adjusted Convolutional (PAC) code that includes an outer convolutional code and a polar code, and based on separate encoding of respective different segments of convolutionally encoded input bits according to the polar code. Each segment of the re...